Even if they do post at work, so the fuck what? Do they not have downtime? Are they not allowed to spend said downtime as they please?
This is propaganda. “See how lazy these workers are? They USE THE INTERNET AT WORK!” Posted by a billionaire that tweets 900 times a day.
It’s totally okay when he goes on websites to post memes but when you do it you’re a lazy piece of shit because worker scum should be giving 100% efficiency. No breaks, no cellphone usage, no chairs, fuck you wage slave
Plus as others have said this is almost certainly edited and misleading:
First off what did weekends and holidays dwarf this? Are they purposely excluding them to make this seem worse?
Secondly what the fuck is that y axis scale? 30,000 posts per day? Bullshit. Reddit has no api access to make this easy to figure out (so how did they get this data??) The front page of r/fednews doesn’t have a metric that would go that high aside from upvotes, maybe. They do get some posts with 1-3k comments but most have like 20. Upvotes make more way more sense
That’s where we get to the point of purposefully misleading. I haven’t used reddit for years but when I did I was on a community for psychotherapists. It’s one of the things I miss about reddit actually because to post there you had to subscribe and message the mods with proof of your licensure or enrollment in a program and then were flaired appropriately. This helped immensely with “armchair psychologists” invading our professional space, which is a genuine problem elsewhere
I mention that because it does not appear fednews has any similar policy, meaning anyone with an account can post, comment, upvote, etc. The overwhelming majority of this data is likely not federal employees given Reddits prominence in online discourse and the current focus on federal government employees
At a minimum they realized this is data that can be easily used to mislead, at worst they pumped the numbers with bots to push their narrative
Similar to the RFK anti vax “data” that was easily dissected bullshit yesterday. The gop has been good at misleading data for years (so have dems but the gop are far more shameless) but now they have big tech on their side. This is absolutely terrifying because tech giants are going to be much better at making this subtle and outright manipulation so that the data appears valid (see the potential for botting above if the scale is upvote based)
I hate this idea that your outside life stops when you get to work. So fucking what if I want to text my mum good morning, or text my mate about meeting for a pint later, or whatever. Yeah, you get mandated breaks, but we aren’t machines.
Also mad curious as to what his sources are, can people easily get Reddit data for posting and commenting across the world?
it’s “activity” so I’m guessing it’s literally any action including upvotes and comments. So likely this is just a chart mirroring reddit’s american userbase activity, excluding weekends and holidays.
But herein lies the problem. They post a sentence and a misleading graph, people eat that shit up. They have an audience of millions and media outlets will amplify it to more, maybe tens of millions even. Easy to digest
I can tear it apart, others can too. Easy, but wordy. I am very bad at doing this succinctly (my post history is clear evidence of this ha). I am sure someone else can do a much better job of doing this concisely BUT:
It almost inherently won’t be concise enough to be as digestible as theirs. It will be a paragraph, a few sentences. There will be more to it.
It will be inherently harder to understand. There will be more steps involved in processing the information. You have to understand what they presented, understand the flaw, and then evaluate whether the flaw is valid
The person posting a reaction is almost certainly not going to have the initial reach of musk amplified by the tech bro and gop propaganda sphere
Per above it is inherently reactionary. Their info has settled in people’s minds as valid and legitimate before yours can even come into play.
Even if they do post at work, so the fuck what? Do they not have downtime? Are they not allowed to spend said downtime as they please?
This is propaganda. “See how lazy these workers are? They USE THE INTERNET AT WORK!” Posted by a billionaire that tweets 900 times a day.
It’s totally okay when he goes on websites to post memes but when you do it you’re a lazy piece of shit because worker scum should be giving 100% efficiency. No breaks, no cellphone usage, no chairs, fuck you wage slave
Plus as others have said this is almost certainly edited and misleading:
First off what did weekends and holidays dwarf this? Are they purposely excluding them to make this seem worse?
Secondly what the fuck is that y axis scale? 30,000 posts per day? Bullshit. Reddit has no api access to make this easy to figure out (so how did they get this data??) The front page of r/fednews doesn’t have a metric that would go that high aside from upvotes, maybe. They do get some posts with 1-3k comments but most have like 20. Upvotes make more way more sense
That’s where we get to the point of purposefully misleading. I haven’t used reddit for years but when I did I was on a community for psychotherapists. It’s one of the things I miss about reddit actually because to post there you had to subscribe and message the mods with proof of your licensure or enrollment in a program and then were flaired appropriately. This helped immensely with “armchair psychologists” invading our professional space, which is a genuine problem elsewhere
I mention that because it does not appear fednews has any similar policy, meaning anyone with an account can post, comment, upvote, etc. The overwhelming majority of this data is likely not federal employees given Reddits prominence in online discourse and the current focus on federal government employees
At a minimum they realized this is data that can be easily used to mislead, at worst they pumped the numbers with bots to push their narrative
Similar to the RFK anti vax “data” that was easily dissected bullshit yesterday. The gop has been good at misleading data for years (so have dems but the gop are far more shameless) but now they have big tech on their side. This is absolutely terrifying because tech giants are going to be much better at making this subtle and outright manipulation so that the data appears valid (see the potential for botting above if the scale is upvote based)
I hate this idea that your outside life stops when you get to work. So fucking what if I want to text my mum good morning, or text my mate about meeting for a pint later, or whatever. Yeah, you get mandated breaks, but we aren’t machines.
Also mad curious as to what his sources are, can people easily get Reddit data for posting and commenting across the world?
What kind of privileged yuppie fuck are you that you have all this time to post at work?
therapist
it’s “activity” so I’m guessing it’s literally any action including upvotes and comments. So likely this is just a chart mirroring reddit’s american userbase activity, excluding weekends and holidays.
Yeesh.
But herein lies the problem. They post a sentence and a misleading graph, people eat that shit up. They have an audience of millions and media outlets will amplify it to more, maybe tens of millions even. Easy to digest
I can tear it apart, others can too. Easy, but wordy. I am very bad at doing this succinctly (my post history is clear evidence of this ha). I am sure someone else can do a much better job of doing this concisely BUT:
It almost inherently won’t be concise enough to be as digestible as theirs. It will be a paragraph, a few sentences. There will be more to it.
It will be inherently harder to understand. There will be more steps involved in processing the information. You have to understand what they presented, understand the flaw, and then evaluate whether the flaw is valid
The person posting a reaction is almost certainly not going to have the initial reach of musk amplified by the tech bro and gop propaganda sphere
Per above it is inherently reactionary. Their info has settled in people’s minds as valid and legitimate before yours can even come into play.